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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Marzban    
First Name(s)  Fardunji    
Birth Year  1787    
Death Year  1847    
Entry  Born at Surat, 1787 : grandson of Dastur Kawoos (1717-79), a founder of the Kadmi sect of the Parsis : went to Bombay, 1805 : settled under Mulla Firoz (q.v.) as librarian, and became proficient in Oriental languages : was a book-binder, 1808, and opened a printing-press, 1812, publishing, 1815, an edition of the Avesta, in 1815 a translation of the Dabistan, in 1818 of the Avesta into Gujarati ; published also translations of the Shahnameh, 1833 ; the Gulistan, 1838 ; the Bostan (published posthumously, 1849) : and composed original poetry : with Mulla Firoz's help he brought out, on July 1, 1822, the first number of the Bombay Samachar, which still exists, and conducted it till Aug. 1832, when he failed in business, losing a ship, and in his journalistic enterprize : he had to leave Bombay and go to the Portuguese settlement at Damaun, 1832 : he published a Persian dictionary, 1832 : knew the principles of Oriental medicine, which he practised at Damaun : a social refomer among the Parsis : died at Damaun, March 23, 1847.     
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